How to setTimeout with local functions ?

[bluedot]

It may be a Javascript thing, but I can't do the following in an object.

 

setTimeout(function(){this.startGame();}, 5000);

 

Should I replace "this" with the fully qualified name ? e.g. game.state.states.MyGame.startGame()

 

Thanks.

[bluedot]

That did work, so I suppose it was a JS thing.

[lewster32]

Don't use setTimeout in Phaser - under the hood Phaser has some quite specific time requirements, so using Phaser's Timer events instead will prevent a lot of headaches with things happening out of sequence:

game.time.events.add(5000, function() {  this.startGame();}, this);

The last parameter is the context the function will be called in. In this case, it's the same context as that the event is being created in.